Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2015
From insideHPC
The Hyper-Converged Approach to Storage – a Natural Next Step
In this week's Industry Perspectives, Laura Shepard, Sr. Director Vertical and Product Marketing at DDN looks at trends in commodity hardware, specifically a converged approach to storage and the many benefits it offers to supercomputing…
From insideHPC
Dell Equips PowerEdge Servers with Bright Cluster Manager for HPC Environments
Today Bright Computing announced that the latest version of its Bright Cluster Manager software is now integrated with Dell's 13th generation PowerEdge server portfolio. The integration enables systems administrators to easily…
From Computational Complexity
A Primer on Graph Isomorphism
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Imagine Cup Earth–Online Competition
Back in my Microsoft days I was actively promoting the Imagine Cup competitions. Realistically, while a couple of high school teams did well, its really hard for high school students to compete with college.university students…
From Schneier on Security
Betting Ticket Forged Based on Selfie
This is an interesting story. Someone posts a photograph of herself holding a winning horse-race betting ticket, and someone else uses the data from the photograph to forge the ticket and claim the winnings. I have been thinking…
From insideHPC
NICE to Demo Technical Computing Apps in the Cloud at SC15
Today Italy's NICE Software announced plans to demonstrate their latest remote visualization technologies at SC15 in Austin. Enhanced products include new release of NICE Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV), improvements for ParaView…
From insideHPC
Mobile Edition: Print ‘n Fly Guide to SC15 in Austin
Welcome to the Mobile Edition of Print ‘n Fly Guide to Austin. "Formatted for your smartphone the Guide is custom tailored for your journey to SC15 — the world’s largest gathering of high performance computing professionals. …
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE Seeks Internet of Things Dominance
In Forbes: GE To Take On IBM In The Race For IOT Dominance by Theo Priestley , General Electric announced yesterday the creation of a new unit with the aim to become the leader in the Industrial Internet of Things race. GE Digital…
From The Eponymous Pickle
BlockChains in Azure
My interest here is in smart contracts. Blockchains as a service, now by Microsoft in Azure. Can these self adapt to their regulatory environment? Warn us when they are no longer of value?
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Jeffrey Forbes Named Chair of ACM Education Policy Committee
ACM, the world’s leading society of computing professionals, has named Jeffrey R.N. Forbes, an Associate Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at Duke University, as Chair of the ACM Education Policy Committee. Created…
From Schneier on Security
Bypassing the iPhone Activation Lock
Clever man-in-the-middle attack....
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSTA High School Survey Results Are In
The Research Committee has been analyzing the High School survey results from May and below are some of the highlights. A detailed Summary of Results is available on our website. 51% of the survey respondents have computer science…
From XRDS
The Cogs of UX
We all know the rate of change today is fierce. As technology leaps forward, students of Human Computer Interaction may be intimidated by the breadth of topics in which they are expected to demonstrate expertise. If one isContinue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Service Competency
ISSIP Service Innovation Weekly Speaker today was Dawn M. Rennick, Consultant/Program Manager at Wells Fargo.Title of the presentation : Moving the High Tech Industry Forward Toward Service Science Competency: A Case Study of…
From insideHPC
Allinea to Extend Performance Tools at SC15
Allinea Software will demonstrate significant extensions to their Forge integrated development tool suite and Performance Reports analytics tool at SC15. "Version 6.0 of both products delivers for developers, users, analysts …
From The Eponymous Pickle
API's for Machine Learning
An overview of a number of APIs for machine learning in Kdnuggets. Also a look at the challenges involved for using this approach. High level overviews of API's including those from IBM, Amazon, Google and Microsoft. I note…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Dell Panels on NSCI and the Convergence of Big Data Coming to SC15
In this podcast, Stephen Sofhauser from Dell describes what’s coming up at the company’s exhibit at SC15 in Austin. With a 50×50 exhibit and two booth theaters, Dell will showcase how customers are using their technology to solve…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Global City Teams Challenge Kick-off Workshop Webcast
The Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) Kick-off Workshop is this week, November 12-13th, 2015, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The Global City Teams Challenge, planned…
From insideHPC
TACC to Speed Lonestar Supercomputer with DDN SFA14K
Today DDN announced that the Texas Advanced Computing Center has selected the company's new SFA14KTM to deliver the performance, capacity and density needed for TACC’s latest Lonestar supercomputer. With 50 percent more cores…
From insideHPC
Seagate SSDs Boost Analytics on Comet Supercomputer
The San Diego Supercomputer Center is adding 800GB Seagate SAS SSDs to significantly boost the data analytics capability of its Comet supercomputer. To expand its node-local storage capacity for data-intensive workloads, device…
From insideHPC
Los Alamos Orders D-Wave 2X Quantum Computer
Today D-Wave Systems announced that Los Alamos National Laboratory will acquire and install the latest D-Wave quantum computer, the 1000+ qubit D-Wave 2X system. Los Alamos, a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Report on the NYT Virtual Reality App
Had my doubts about this. But is a new kind of photo journalism and means to tell a story. Is product placement next? How do you determine the place for VR casts? A means to introduce many to the VR idea. Have not seen it…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Articles on Personal Assistants
Recent articles on Virtual Personal assistants:http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150710005433/en/http://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21664071-technology-firms-are-competing-become-consumers-personal-secretaries…
From The Eponymous Pickle
John Scully on Minding the Design Gap
Design gap. New term for me, but have seen it happen in tech and in consumer package goods. " ... John Sculley earned a name for himself in the world of business leading Pepsi and Apple, but his ambitions encompass far more than…
From Schneier on Security
Ransomware Is Getting Sophisticated
Some of the tricks that ransomware is using to get victims to pay up....
From insideHPC
ESnet and NERSC Build 400G Production Network
The Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) have built a 400 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) super-channel, the first-ever 400G production link to …
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Beetle Blocks Visual Code for 3D Design
The other day I added a new entry to my blog post listing drag and drop programming languages. It is based on Scratch and Snap! which many teachers are already using to teach programming. Beetle Blocks adds something different…
From Putting People First
Blackphone 2 review: privacy and great usability
Guardian writer Samuel Gibbs writes that the second edition of the Blackphone by security and privacy company Silent Circle is a step up in usability and is surprisingly easy to set up and use, even for privacy novices. “The …
From Putting People First
Blackphone 2 review: privacy and great usability
Guardian writer Samuel Gibbs writes that the second edition of the Blackphone by security and privacy company Silent Circle is a step up in usability and is surprisingly easy to set up and use, even for privacy novices. “The …
From Putting People First
Interview with Birgit Mager on the evolution of service design
Ayla Newhouse of Adaptive Path interviewed Birgit Mager, President and Co-Founder of the International Service Design Network, on how she got into service design back when it was so new, and how she defines it more than a decade…